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Friendica 2019.01 released

We are pleased to announce the availability of Friendica The Tazmans Flax-lily 2019.01, which bundles up our work since September 2018. This includes over 130 fixed issues and some exciting new features. If you are interested in all of them, please have a look at the CHANGELOG file. Most noteworthy of these changes are: Friendica […]


Friendica 2018.12 RC available

Today we have branched off the release candidate (RC) for the upcoming 2018.12 release of Friendica The Tazmans Flax-lily. Over the last quarter of the year many issues were resolved, alongside with some enhancements and new features. Most noteworthy the initial support of ActivityPub as communication protocol between nodes in the Fediverse. For all these […]


Friendica 2018.09 released

Dear everybody in the Federation, the Fediverse and anywhere else, the Friendica team is pleased to announce the release of Friendica The Tazmans Flax-lily 2018.09. This release brings the long awaited restructuring of the item table in the database, alongside some 100 closed issues from the tracker. Please see the CHANGELOG file for the complete overview […]


Friendica 2018.08 RC available

Today we have branched off the release candidate (RC) for the upcoming 2018.08 release of Friendica The Tazmans Flax-lily. Over the last 3 month many issues were resolved, alongside with some enhancements and new features. For all these changes we now feel it is time for them to get released. Before this will happen, we’d […]


Friendica 2018.05 released

Dear Federation, the Friendica team is pleased to announce the release of Friendica The Tazmans Flax-lily 2018.05. Back on track with scheduled releases, after 3.6 took such a long time. In this release we have packed some bug fixes and enhancements. After an incompatibility glitch with the last release, Friendica 2018.05 is now again compatible […]


Friendica 3.6 released

The year started with sad news that Tony Baldwin passed away January 6th. Tony was an early member of the Friendica/RedMatrix/Hubzilla community who contributed ideas, addons, themes and utility tools. He was a great spirit among the FLOSS people, an artist, a translator, an interpreter and a great friend who is deeply missed. This release is dedicated […]


Friendica 3.6 RC available

Hey everyone, we have just branched off a release candidate branch for the next stable release of Friendica to focus on testing the code and fixing the final problem. For this to succeed, we’d like to ask you to test the 3.6-rc code on your node if you like. This branch is for the final […]


Friendica 3.5.4 released

Dear Federation, the Friendica team is pleased to announce the release of Friendica *Asparagus* 3.5.4. This release is a hotfix release for a bug that was overlooked in the 3.5.3rc phase during saving searches to the users side menu. It also includes fixes to smaller issues we had with relocating accounts from one node of […]


Helpers forum moved to the new node as well

After the relocation of the developers forum to the new location the other day due to performance issues with the old server. We have now also relocated the Helpers forum to the new server. The new address is helpers@forum.friendi.ca. Since we have migrated the account, no changes needn’t to be done on existing connections. Additionally we […]


Friendica 3.5.3 released

Dear Federation, the Friendica DevTeam is pleased to announce the release of Friendica *Asparagus* 3.5.3. Aside of the ongoing performance enhancements and code refractoring, some note worthy changes in this release: We ironed out some problems with the federation towards Mastodon and enhanced Diaspora and OStatus federation, as well as the bridges to other systems. […]